07.06.2011

World IPv6 Day: The Future is forever!

On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisationsthat will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”.The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across theindustry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating systemvendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 toensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

My company has decided to take part in this initiative. The AAAA record is announced, so www.gip.com is translated into 2002:d58b:8be3:2000::2

There a many other companies, which will anounce their domain with AAAA-records tomorrow. Up to now 65% of the participating companies are already reachable via IPv6 (for online chart click the image).

Google publishes a nice statistic, which shows the IPv6 traffic to their site:

Tomorrow this graph should reach 1%? 10%? 50%? Let's wait for the results....